Also from experiance how much do you enjoy using Surround? how is it for games?

Thanks

BrutalGreen

July 7, 2012 05:41 PM

its not about the pleasure for gaming on surround its about the pleasure of having surround bragging rights...well for me atleast :)

Lucasrivers

July 7, 2012 06:27 PM

Hey,

It's not about bragging rights to me..though i would :p But does it add to your gaming experiance?

Arinoth

July 7, 2012 09:05 PM

I'd recommend against trying to do nvidia surround or amd eyefinity on a single graphics card at high graphical settings. The reason is, 3 monitor gaming taxes your single card 3 times as much, severely lowering your frames. I'd only recommend sli/x-fire or tri if you plan to do 3 monitor gaming with all the eye candy on.

BrutalGreen

July 7, 2012 09:39 PM

in all seriousness:

GTX 6XX series for <1080p
HD 7XXX series for >1080p

bang for buck.

Lucasrivers

July 7, 2012 09:58 PM

The reviews i have read show the GTX 680 preforming well with 3 montiors with all or most eye candy on. no lower then 40 FPS in most new games. Then again i'm not to picky if i have to turn some things down untill i throw another 680 in.

bigFOIG

July 8, 2012 01:11 AM

My GTX 670 was running BF3 great on high settings. So I would say you can get away with single card surround if you don't need to have max settings.

Arinoth

July 8, 2012 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucasrivers
(Post 640516)

The reviews i have read show the GTX 680 preforming well with 3 montiors with all or most eye candy on. no lower then 40 FPS in most new games. Then again i'm not to picky if i have to turn some things down untill i throw another 680 in.

Personally that's not amazing frame rate and at times you may notice some dips in performance. Up until this generation I was running dual cards for 3 monitor gaming due in part to the reasons I previously mentioned.

I rathered having 60+ FPS at all times with 2 cards, then the chance of stuttering/lag/sub 40 fps with all the eye candy maxed.

Lucasrivers

July 8, 2012 08:30 AM

i know 40 FPS isn't amazing but i can get that to 60+ by turning down some Settings. Then when i can throw in a second GTX 680 and own those 3 monitors :P

Arinoth

July 8, 2012 08:38 AM

Yep, that's why I'm advocating/recommending dual cards over singles, and well warning you at the same time.